Karen Hood

Location: Coeur D'Alene, Idaho | Years Designing: 15

If you’re stuck in the wilderness, you want to run into Karen. With her experience in bushcraft, jungle, and urban survival, chances are good she’d save your bacon. As owner of Survival.com and the publisher and Editor-In-Chief of Survival Quarterly Magazine, she and her late husband, survival expert Ron Hood, created more than 30 award-winning survival videos that are widely considered to be the finest wilderness training aids in the world. Karen used everything she learned in the development of her CRKT® survival knife the KHC™ Karen Hood Chopper.